Photo: Dr. Carol Damian at ‘Secret Affinities’ exhibition in JCMC, Miami by Rafael Guillén
Dr. Carol Damian is Professor Emerita at Florida International University. She is a former Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History and the former Director and Chief Curator of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (2008-2014) (retired). She is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and received her MA in Pre-Columbian Art and her Ph. D. in Latin American History from the University of Miami. A specialist in Latin American and Caribbean Art, she has focused her most recent work on Latin American Women and Cuban exile artists, for whom she has written numerous catalogs and articles. She is the Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Freedom Tower and the Curator of the Chapel of LaMerced at Corpus Christi Church. She is the author of The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco (Grassfield Press, 1995), lectures frequently on Latin American and Caribbean art and has curated numerous exhibitions. Currently, she is the Chairperson of the Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust.
Selected publications:
– Carlos Estévez: Entelechy. Works from 1992-2018. Tucson Museum of Art, 2019.
– Instructor’s Manual with Tests: Art – A Brief History by Marilyn Stokstad. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000.
– Neorealism and Contemporary Colombian Painting. Art Editions: Bogota-Miami-Santo Domingo, 2000.
– The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco. Miami Beach: Grassfield Press, 1995.
In 2025, as part of the public programing for the exhibition ‘Secret Affinities, Aesthetics of Two Worlds’ at JCMC, Dr. Carol Damian to led a guided visit of the pre-Columbian pieces, click here to view.
In 2018, as part of the public programing for the exhibition ‘Constructing Constructivism’ at JCMC, Dr. Carol Damian presented ‘Art Talk: Kenneth Noland – To Structure in Color’.